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Republican Sinn Féin Sinn Féin Poblachtach | |
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| President | Seosamh Ó Maoileoin |
| Vice-Presidents | S. MacCarthaigh Martin Kelly |
| General Secretaries | L. Ní Chathmhaoil C. Healy |
| Publicity Officer | A. Ó Muirithe |
| Treasurers | A. Donohue D. MacDubhghlais |
| Life Vice-Presidents | S. Ó’Loinsigh M. Mag Congail |
| Founders | Ruairí Ó Brádaigh Dáithí Ó Conaill |
| Founded | November 1986 (Originally 28 November 1905) |
| Newspaper | Saoirse – Irish Freedom |
| Youth wing | Fianna Éireann |
| Women's wing | Cumann na mBan |
| Military Wing | Continuity Irish Republican Army (alleged) |
| Political orientation | Irish Republicanism Abstentionism (Irish Republican) Irish Republican Legitimism Euroscepticism Anti-Imperialism Socialism Secularism Direct Action Éire Nua Internationalism |
| Galway County Council | 1/39 |
| Website | |
| https://republicansinnfein.org/ | |
 Twitter | @https://x.com/RepublicanSF |
Republican Sinn Féin is an Irish Republican political party in Occupied Northern Ireland and the Collaborator Republic of Ireland. It split from Provisional Sinn Féin in 1986 due to the party's abandonment of abstentionism.[1]
History
Ideology
Republican Sinn Féin is staunchly Irish Republican, abstentionist, and committed to the armed struggle to liberate Ireland.[1]
It is considered an Irish Republican Legitimist organization, with it claiming to be the legitimate successor of the original Sinn Féin party of 1905.[2] Due to this the party opposes the government of the Republic of Ireland, as it was founded by the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922, as well as the occupation government in Northern Ireland.[3]
It opposes all imperialist presence in Ireland, including both by the United Kingdom and the European Union, the latter in particular due to its exploitation of natural resources in Ireland and its harm to Irish farmers, as well as the EU's participation in global imperialism.[4] Likewise it opposes global imperialism as a whole, supporting the struggle of the Palestinian people against Zionism[5] and criticizing the docking of NATO ships in Ireland.[6] It also supports the revolutionary left in Turkey[7] and the Kurdish struggle against Turkish repression.[8] Among other global national liberation movements.
The party believes in the Éire Nua plan, which calls for the establishment of a 32 County Socialist Republic in Ireland.[9]
Objectives
The long term objectives of the party are according to them:
(a) The complete overthrow of British rule in Ireland, and the establishment of a Federal Democratic Socialist Republic based on the Proclamation of 1916.
(b) To bring the Proclamation of the Republic, Easter 1916, into effective operation and to maintain and consolidate the Government of the Republic, representative of the people of all Ireland, based on that Proclamation.
(c) To establish in the Republic a reign of social justice based on Irish Republican socialist principles in accordance with the Proclamation of the Republic of 1916 and the Democratic Programme of the First Dáil Éireann in 1919 and by a just distribution of the nation’s wealth and resources, and to institute a system of government suited to the particular needs of the people.
(d) To establish the Irish language as the primary means of communication in the Republic, to teach Irish history in such a way as will foster a pride in our cultural heritage and a sense of rights and responsibilities in our people as citizens of the Republic.[10]
RSF also has many short term political objectives, which they list as:
1) Opposing EU/EPU/EMU proposals which conflict with the interests of the
Irish people.
2) Organising against repression, extradition and restrictions on the broadcasting media, in both the 26 Counties and the Six Counties.
3) Contesting 26-County local elections and elections to Údarás na Gaeltachta.
4) Involving ourselves in local and community issues.
5) Supporting local autonomy, including local financing.
6) Encouraging and promoting cooperative enterprises.
7) Working to protect the environment and encouraging the recycling of waste and opposing incineration.
8) Informing the people, young people and the unemployed in particular, about our alternative to the existing system.
9) Developing and promoting our monthly publication, SAOIRSE.
10) Supporting consumer rights and exposing the politicians’ system of clientelism.
11) Campaigning against unfair banking practices and supporting involvement in local Credit Unions.
12) Supporting the campaign to maintain and extend the television service in Irish.
13) Supporting a housing campaign and working against evictions.
14) Working for and among the unemployed and emigrants.
15) Involving ourselves in Trade Union activity in support of workers’ rights and seeking to interest organised labour in our alternative programme.
16) Campaigning against speculation in land for housing and essential services. Supporting demands that the principle, that the price of building land be based on the price of agricultural land plus 25%, be adopted and implemented.[10]
Affiliated Organizations
Current Status
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About Us - Republican SINN FÉIN Poblachtach". Republican Sinn Fein.
- ↑ “"has direct and unbroken continuity with the original Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905."”
"About Us". Republican Sinn Fein. - ↑ “Sinn Féin is abstentionist. We do not take seats if elected to Stormont or Leinster House. Instead we lend our support to the de-facto Dáil Éireann.
We do not recognize the legitimacy of these parliaments in Ireland, both of which were created by acts of the British parliament in Westminster as a denial of the wishes of the Irish people.
Therefore, we do not give voluntary recognition to either jurisdiction.”
"About Us". Republican Sinn Fein. - ↑ "About Us-The European Union".
- ↑ "Stand up for Palestine". Republican Sinn Fein.
- ↑ "Another NATO ship breaking Irish neutrality" (2022-11-28). Republican Sinn Fein.
- ↑ "R.S.F demand release of arrested comrades in Turkey" (2022-03-2015). Republican Sinn Fein.
- ↑ "Kurdistan: Imperialists show their true colours" (2025). Kurdistan: Imperialists show their true colours.
- ↑ Éire Nua: A New Democracy (1990).
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Objectives". Republican Sinn Fein.